Opening item in UK Daily Mail's comment: "In a major report last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave a grave assessment of how man-made global warming was rapidly destroying the Arctic ice cap....How interesting then, that the latest analysis of 88 million measuremenst from the European Space Agency's Cryosat satellite show the northern ice-cap INCREASED by a staggering 41 per cent in 2013, and, despite a modest shortage last year is bigger that at any time for decades."

An explanation of the significance of the new model of the Sun's activity, produced by Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbrian University, has been posted by a distinguished New Zealand climatologist, Dr John Maunder. Dr Maunder, was President of the Commission for Climatology of
the World
Meteorological Organization from 1989 to 1997, and has over the last 50 years
been involved
in the "weather business" in various countries, including New Zealand,
Australia, Canada,
US, Ireland, Switzerland, and the UK , through activities in national weather
services,
universities and international oraganizations, and publications including four
books.

"'The Church has got no mandate from the Lord to pronounce on scientific matters.' In that one sentence Cardinal Pell puts his finger on what is wrong with Laudato Si', Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment.In that document, Francis waded into an argument about climate change and took sides. ...In an interview in Thursday's Financial Times, the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy stepped out of line. It was a brave thing to do: Pell's wholesale reform of the Vatican's finances is making him plenty of enemies as it is, and now he's even more vulnerable to attack." Damian Thompson, writing in The Spectator, UK.

"Outside the EU, serious countries are not implementing emissions trading schemes. That...crucial fact shows no sign of changing any time soon....For almost a decade now, a nation [Australia] that will have little influence over international policy developments and no discernible effect on global climate patterns, has allowed the issue to dominate domestic political debate and consume political leaders. It is nonsensical - perhaps the most blatant demonstration anywhere in the Western World about how politics has drifted from the battlegrounds of ideology and pragmatic policy choices to a preoccupation with identity." Chris Kenny, writing in The Australian.

Australian physicist and Antarctic researcher, Dr John Reid devastatingly condemns here, the perversion of science by the 'Green Blob'. He explains" It works like this: activists use scientists to push for international action on a science-related issue in an area such as health or environment. Then, an international agreement is established, and ther science on which it has been based becomes institutionalised and funded by government...The science stops being science.. [as] scientists working on the relevant topic start being advocates and stop being researchers. After all, they're now being paid by the bureaucracy to support a particular doctrine, not to discover new stuff."

"The earth is 15 years from a 'mini ice-age' that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted. Solar researchers at the University of Northumbria have created a new model of the sun's activity which they claim produces 'unprecedentedly accurate predictions.'" Dan Hyde, writing in the UK's Daily Telegraph.

Haven't we heard this before? in 1970, before the UNFCCC invented "man-made global warming" in 1992?